John C. Maxwell

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it's almost always due to personal growth.

Negative thinking creates clouds at critical decision times.

Negative thinking limits God and our potential.

Anyone who loves his opinions more than his teammates will advance his opinions but set back his team.

Leaders create and inspire new leaders by instilling faith in their leadership abilities and helping them develop and hone leadership skills they don't know they possess.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders and continually develops them.

If you live life with the intention of making a difference in others' lives, your life will be full not empty.

As a leader, you have to take responsibility for your own failures as well as successes. That's the only way you'll learn. _x000D_ If you keep learning, you'll improve. _x000D_ If you improve, your leadership will get better. _x000D_ And in time, you will earn the right to lead on the level you deserve.

Confidence is a characteristic of a positive attitude. The greatest achievers and leaders remain confident regardless of circumstances.

An organization cannot increase its productivity-but people can!

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

One is too small a number to achieve greatness. No accomplishment of real value has ever been achieved by a human being working alone.

Two ( or more) people come together and they agree that they should be together for a common purpose and that purpose is to add value to one another. ENGAGEMENTS are partnerships that should ALWAYS be Win-Win.

People will work eight hours a day for pay, 10 hours a day for a good boss, and 24 hours a day for a good cause!

Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.

No one achieves greatness by becoming a generalist. You don't hone a skill by diluting your attention to its development. The only way to get to the next level is focus.

Everything you now do is something you have chosen to do. Some people don't want to believe that. But if you're over age twenty-one, your life is what you're making of it. To change your life, you need to change your priorities

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behavior. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become. Take action on your behavior. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This never works.